Tobias Jesso Jr. Quotes
If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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So many girls trying to be models, like, 'Oh my god, I want to be a model!' Nobody really knows the reality of it. It's a lot of hard work, but at the same time, it's a lot of fun.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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I'm just waiting for the day when my songs aren't flying. Because I kind of believe in Murphy's law - if something can go wrong, it eventually will.
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I try to eat fruit and be healthy.
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Beauty is momentary in the mind - The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing. So gardens die, their meek breath scenting The cowl of winter, done repenting. So maidens die, to the auroral Celebration of a maiden's choral.
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Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
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Lonestar Where are you out tonight? This feeling I'm trying to fight It's dark and I think that I would give anything For you to shine down on me
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You watch movies and see bands you like and copy them and see what you can hold. I mean, it's all down to how you hold what you wear.
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I'm over this thing of being champion, having the title.
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I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at.
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It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.
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I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders.
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Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.
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Because of Watergate in part, I am kind of a magnet for calls and information and suggestions.
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Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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Without realizing it, the architect had given these people a means of escaping into a new life, and a pattern of social organization that would become the paradigm of all future high-rise blocks.
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If you write a piece, it's a different thing to show it to an editor than it is to show it to your best friend. You think, "Maybe she'll see through this or she'll see through that." That happened to me with my best friend back in Vancouver. I showed him "Just a Dream" and he took off the headphones halfway through and said, "Man, this is kind of garbage." He told me I needed to get singing lessons.
